Navy | The Royal Navy |
Type | MS Trawler |
Class | [No specific class] |
Pennant | T 53 |
Built by | Cochrane & Sons Shipbuilders Ltd. (Selby, U.K.) |
Ordered | |
Laid down | |
Launched | 5 Oct 1929 |
Commissioned | 30 May 1939 |
End service | |
History | Comleted in November 1929. Sold in April 1946 and renamed Rankin. |
Commands listed for HMS Hornbeam (T 53)
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Commander | From | To | |
1 | Arthur George John Matthews, RNVR | 28 Aug 1939 | 28 Aug 1942 |
2 | T/Lt. Winston Asmus Noakes, RNVR | 28 Aug 1942 | 1 Jun 1943 |
3 | T/Lt. Walter James Parker, RNR | 1 Jun 1943 | 24 Aug 1943 |
4 | William Leonard Harrington, RNVR | 24 Aug 1943 | 5 Dec 1944 |
5 | T/Lt. Philip Ceasar Linfield, RNVR | 5 Dec 1944 | late 1945 |
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